Powder coating repairs

Qualicoat UK & Ireland has added a further guidance note for specifiers and building professionals which is now available as a download from the association’s website.

Guidance Note No. 4 advises on the repair of powder coated architectural products and offers the reader an insight into the necessary procedure to take in order to obtain a high quality and warrantied repair. The guidance note joins three further notes which offer guidance on this widely used finish in the construction industry.

The guidance note explains the various problems that can occur from neglect, impact damage and failure of powder coated systems. Failure of a powder coated finish rarely occurs in use, but when it does the reasons are often down to poor application of pre-treatment and powder coating. Qualicoat UK & Ireland’s very existence revolves about ‘consistent best practice’. Members meet on a regular basis and are updated through site quality visits from Qualicoat’s independent testing house, ‘Exova’, formerly known as ‘Bodycote’.

Powder Coating continues to increase its longevity in the built environment and guarantees on finished aluminium profiles can now be warrantied for up to 40 years.

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